Over the last five years, I’ve done countless compliance reviews for cannabis product and CBD product labels, packaging materials, and products themselves. In all cases – not most, all – cannabis product labels needed at least one change. Product type, shape, and ingredients often needed work. And even packaging material has had plenty of issues. Sometimes an entire label needed reworking or product needed redesigning for compliance. Today I want to talk about why cannabis product compliance review is so key.
Every state that regulates cannabis has complex cannabis product requirements. Generally, they fall into three categories – product regulations, packaging regulations, and label regulations. Product regulations generally contain ingredient restrictions, product type and shape restrictions, or THC/cannabinoid content maximums or restrictions. For example, California prohibits most dairy products but allows cannabis beef jerky, Alabama regulators believes gummies should only be peach flavored, Washington is cool with parallelogram shapes but apparently not nonagons, and a whole lot of states got pissed off that Mike Tyson made ear-shaped gummies. It can get pretty obscure.
Packaging regulations can also be pretty challenging. Let’s just look at California. The applicable regulations require cannabis products to have child resistant packaging (CRP), in some cases
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